Friday, May 30, 2008

Tell-a-Friend

Tell-a-Friend or TaF (as we developers call it) is a new product from Pramati Technology, Hyderabad

Its something to aid 'spread the word around the world'. Just click on it and instantly announce things to your near & dear ones. So, you can announce your blog posts, articles, products on sale etc. through IM, Email, Blogs and Social Networks(like Facebook and Twitter) through a single integrated interface. So, its kinda like a single window to multiple channels to make a million announcements. So, it will bring more clicks to your weblog / website and help market your articles/products.

When Sunny showed me the TaF button embedded in Nina's blog (ya...thats our test blog), I could see foretell that this product could actually become a rage. Intel Mashmaker, CatchFlix and BigScreen are already using it/used it. But, now any one can integrate TaF in their website/blog for the following 2 divine reasons:
1) The free version is absolutely free :P (and one day beer shall also be free)
2) All it takes is embedding a code snippet in the page where the TaF icon is to be displayed.

Hope I see the TaF icons weblogs alongside dig.com, stumble upon etc. icons. After all, it always feels nice to see people use and talk about something that has your code :P.

TaF extensively employs JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, DOJO and AJAX. The widget opens up in an iframe and seemlessly gives a web2.0 feel to the page. We are working to further boost its performance by using CSS sprites, decreasing the number of http request/response and fine-tuning the backend. A rework on its look-and-feel is also being undertaken. So, with time, its gonna become all the more difficult to ignore it and impossible to resist not having it on your page :)